Import cargo volume at Georgia Ports and the nation’s other major retail container ports is expected to be up in October over the same month last year and should continue to see strong year-over-year growth, even as seasonal levels wind down, according to a report released last week by the National Retail Fe

The Navy cruiser USS Monterey will come into port in Savannah Tuesday for a three-day visit. This 567-foot-long, $1 billion state-of-the art warship, homeported in Norfolk, Va., carries more than 350 officers and sailors.

After seven weeks of treating nearly a thousand of Haiti’s most seriously injured following the island’s devastating January earthquake, the USNS Comfort returned home this weekend, sailing into Norfolk.

Francie Considine Ware, whose husband, Savannah native Jimmy Ware, commands the massive Navy hospital ship, was at the pier with the couple’s four children – Kevin

Francie Ware, whose husband, Savannah native Jimmy Ware commands the massive Navy hospital ship Comfort, says the ship’s medical team – more than a thousand professionals from the Navy, Red Cross, Project Hope and other groups - has been working 24/7 since the Comfort droppe

The massive Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort and its commander, Savannah native Capt. James Ware, have been in the news – from CNN to the cover of USA Today – nearly every day since the Comfort dropped anchor off the coast of Haiti 10 days ago, bringing much-needed high-tech medical resources for those severely injured in the earthquake.